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And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
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And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing…
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
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I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,…
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Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
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Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that…
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I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at…
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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things…
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But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back…
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Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and…
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If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
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As a Magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic whether I'm holding my breath…
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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things…
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If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is…
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Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
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Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of…
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
— Louise Bourgeois
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The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
— John M. Ford
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